Love 'em or hate 'em, however, it may be going a bit far to blame the vuvuzela for spreading disease, as this AP story suggests. What the story amounts to is this unsurprising finding: blowing a prolonged raspberry through a tube spatters lots of tiny spit droplets around.

Bearing in mind the recent revelations regarding the possibilities of spreading Legionnaires’ via car-windscreen washers ( see European Journal of Epidemiology June 08, 2010 http://tinyurl.com/wiper-fluid ) perhaps the vuvuzela threat should be examined with a controlled randomised double-blind trial? ( or should that be double-deaf ?) But even if a link is found, might it not be offset by the positive health effects of temporary bouts of blowing-induced extra oxygen intake, and beneficial exercise to the diaphragm and other abdominal muscles?

She doesn't think about costs of security, just that every detail will be done to perfection. Weddings in general are an expensive endeavor and parents being parents want their daughter to have the wedding she always dreamed of. Weddings are a happy day, a celebration, a union with your best friend in the world. Making Chelsea's wedding political or economic is absurd. It's not about the money. It's about the bride.